southward Station When it was ...

southward Station

When it was instituteed at the turn of the hundred Boston's South Station was the nation's largest rail terminal on the contrary otherwise very characteristic of its time. The granite and brick structure's majestic spaces and ornate detailing typified an era when civic packs were heftier, beaux-arts classicism was almost obligatory and large urban warehouses were not unlike public living chambers

And like many railway stations of its era, South Station became a relic with the rapid ascent of air travel in the early 1950 As the number of travelers passing within its portals waned, ...